Advice on best app to (efficiently) program drum tracks for 13 songs

I recently decided to record a cover of one of my favorite albums -- Radiohead's OK Computer. This is just for my own enjoyment and to force me to master a bunch of skills. I plan to perform guitar, bass, vocals, synths, etc. using real instruments, but since I am not a drummer will program the drums using app(s).

I want the drums to sound appropriate for the song but don't need note-for-note perfect. My current plan is to use the Songsterr app as the source for drum tabs (since I can't yet pick out drum parts by ear). It seems that a given song has between 5-15 distinct patterns which is manageable.

The two leading options I see are DrumPerfect and Funk Drummer / Rock Drum Machine. I would export the output of each to Auria.

Since the album has 13 tracks, I would like to find the quickest solution that sounds good and supports the rest of the performance.

Any ideas or better suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Michael

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I think you already narrowed it down to the best solutions DrumPerfect and Funk Drummer / Rock Drum Machine.
One of those should do the trick. Also check out the new garageband it has some sort of auto drummer thing.

But you realize there are all sorts of unusual time signatures and stops and starts and polyrhythms, right? And that's just in "Paranoid Android"!
Good luck: steep undertaking. I remember being proud that I figured out "Paranoid Android" on guitar. And then I saw this clip of Thom Yorke dashing it off casually WHILE SINGING.

DrumStudio is great for programing drum hits but the drum themselves sound subpar in imho and you can't change them out. You can also import midi drum files into Drumstudio , DPP ,NanoStudio ,BM2 etc. So if you wanted to you can program the drums in say logic and just import the midi file this will save a ton of time and frustration.

@BiancaNeve Oops, thanks for the copy and paste pointer. I tried it with drum tabs for one of the songs I plan to record, and it worked but only partially. For some reason DrumStudio did not recognize kick parts or cymbal parts on tab where it read in snare properly. Very odd. I've reached out the the developer. Even this is still better than starting from scratch, though.

@TrustButVerify said:@BiancaNeve Oops, thanks for the copy and paste pointer. I tried it with drum tabs for one of the songs I plan to record, and it worked but only partially. For some reason DrumStudio did not recognize kick parts or cymbal parts on tab where it read in snare properly. Very odd. I've reached out the the developer. Even this is still better than starting from scratch, though.

You can try to export that tab as a midi file and then open the midi file in DrumStudio and move the midi notes to the right drum sound.

@hacked_to_pieces I had the same issue with another set of drum tabs. Via Google I found a website which converts pasted drum tab to MIDI files. I can save that to Dropbox and open in Auria (or DrumPerfect) to humanize it and place it in the final track. That might be quicker.